Headlines of Utter Weirdness

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  • RockyRoger wrote: »
    There was no ':' on the BBC website. I added it to avoid confusion ..... inadvertantly causing confusion. Sorry!

    Ah - I see! Thank you.
    :wink:
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    From the Daily Record online:
    Huge fire breaks out in Kilmarnock town centre as emergency services race to blaze

    Another of those occasions when the emergency services were so quick the fire didn't break out until they were in the act of racing to the blaze ... :rage:




  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    Talk about an ambiguous possessive, whose downfall is this from the iPaper? Of course quite a lot of people would be happy to see it belong to both of them.
    "Trump threatens war on Murdoch. It will be his downfall".
    It turns out that the iPaper is suggesting it could be the POTUS's
    (If you want to find the answer, it's in the hidden text.)

  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    Why is there never a Mutual Assured Destruction around when you need it?
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Hedgehog wrote: »
    Why is there never a Mutual Assured Destruction around when you need it?

    Exactly what a FB friend (who I think is a Shippie, but I don't know her Ship name) said! As I replied to her comment, it's a battle you'd want both sides to lose!
  • Here we go again: "Man suffers multiple stab wounds as police make public plea".

    Very dangerous, those public pleas!
  • The sheer incompetence of these so-called reporters is breathtaking (almost).
    Piglet wrote: »
    From the Daily Record online:
    Huge fire breaks out in Kilmarnock town centre as emergency services race to blaze

    Another of those occasions when the emergency services were so quick the fire didn't break out until they were in the act of racing to the blaze ... :rage:




    Just spotted this one. I think the terrific speed at which the firefighters responded to a blaze resulted in the spontaneous combustion of the town centre as they whizzed through it.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited July 21
    Presumably the Media Group to which all these journals belong has a guide which sub-editors must use when they create headings. Perhaps they get sacked if they don't use the word "as" in the approved way.
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    I can see it now: "Editor Fired As Headline Released Without An As."
  • BBC: "Teens stranded in cave after canoe capsizes rescued as mum raises alarm". Imagine: mum goes to raise the alarm but, just as she does so, the rescuers arrive without having been told.
  • Hedgehog wrote: »
    I can see it now: "Editor Fired As Headline Released Without An As."

    Yes - fired just before the as-less headline appeared...

    O Dread Lord Cthulhu - teach these gormless wossnames some grammar...if they can't even manage simple English, how are they going to cope when Your Dread Lordship returns, and they have to learn R'lyehen?
  • Yer wot?
  • BBC: "Man who murdered wife as she pushed their baby in pram jailed for life" is, sadly, accurate. How horrible.
  • Hedgehog wrote: »
    I can see it now: "Editor Fired As Headline Released Without An As."

    Yes - fired just before the as-less headline appeared...

    O Dread Lord Cthulhu - teach these gormless wossnames some grammar...if they can't even manage simple English, how are they going to cope when Your Dread Lordship returns, and they have to learn R'lyehen?

    R'lyehen (though I confess I'm not 100% sure if that speeling is correct) is the language spoken by the devotees of H P Lovecraft's creation, Dread Lord Cthulhu. The sunken city in which He lies dreaming, until His time comes, is called R'lyeh.





  • LOOK AT THIS! "Social club to be completely knocked down after huge sinkhole appears".

    Yes - after not as! (Mind you, the sinkhole appeared two years ago!)
  • LOOK AT THIS! "Social club to be completely knocked down after huge sinkhole appears".

    Yes - after not as! (Mind you, the sinkhole appeared two years ago!)

    *swoons*

    Mind you, it begs the question as to what the poor social club has been doing all this while - hanging over the edge of the sinkhole?
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited July 22
    I'm pretty sure that they haven't been able to function - the hole is huge and undermines the building. It seems to be over an old culvert and mineshaft.
  • I hadn't looked at the globally influential Strathspey and Badenoch Herald for some time, and was bemused to read just now: A95 whisky road crash between Aberlour and Craigellachie sees man arrested. The brief article leaves the reader none the wiser regarding the role of the uisge beatha in the event.
  • It obviously gave the gift of sight to the road.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    edited July 22
    I do enjoy the insightful observations on this thread! (But then, you knew that.)
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    A friend of mine used to be the manager of the Aberlour distillery (he'd previously run the Highland Park).
  • A horticulturalist, then?
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    :mrgreen:
  • I was assuming that the A95 is known locally as *Whisky Road* on account of all the distilleries in that area...
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    There would be quite a few, right enough ...
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    Not so much weird as just impressive, but this has appeared as today's front page headline in the National. For non UK shipmates, that is a Scottish newspaper that supports the SNP.
    'Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland'
    , with a slightly smaller subheading,
    'Republican leader, who was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation, will visit golf courses'.

    I will leave it up to others to guess to whom this news refers.

  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    :naughty: :naughty: :naughty:
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